With the independence of the new Texas territory, the American government would waste no time in expanding their new country westward. However they were met with opposition from the Nation of Mexico eventually leading to the Mexican War or the Mexican American war. Was a war with Mexico worth an expansion westward? Did the legitimacy of this war pose more of a threat than the Native American settlements did to the expansion of the United States? And how were the Mexicans viewed before and after this war? The U.S never stopped expanding until they reached the Pacific Ocean. Hundreds of thousands of lives were lost and America seemed to achieve some sort of destiny. Was it a failure on the part of opposing forces, in particular the Mexicans? Or was there absolutely no stopping this American freight train?
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